Today, September 20th, is my birthday. I remember growing up and LOVING birthdays, when people gushed all over me and sang, ate lots of cake, gave me presents, etc. Now, as an adult, I still get all of those things (2 cakes before my actual birthday arrived!), but it’s totally different. I realize now – [...]

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Yesterday, we shared how some of you are discovering a feeling of being rescued after serving & giving to others. This month’s TEN TOGETHER Reflection builds on this theme. What can you give up so that others receive? You can find more studies online at www.TENTOGETHER.org as we learn from the lessons our African partners [...]

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Our partners in Africa are expressing significant concern for how we are doing with the recent earthquake, hurricane, and flooding that has rocked many of you in the United States. As they pray for us, I also know you all are prayerfully acting for them. Powerful things are happening, as we all join together in [...]

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Two days ago, Forgotten Voices lost a friend: Vuyani (right in the pink). Many of you may remember us writing about Vuyani in the past, a beautiful young woman from Zimbabwe. A funeral service was held for her yesterday and she will be buried later this week. When I wrote you from Zimbabwe, I shared [...]

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Here, Ryan shares a lesson from the Keith family trip to Africa this summer, where Ryan spent 3 weeks in Zimbabwe with his wife, Katie, and 14 month old daughter, Avery. You can read all the lessons over the next couple weeks here on the blog. Lesson #2 from our trip is that we get [...]

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Over and over and over before our family left for Africa, we kept getting asked why are you taking your baby and why are you taking the risk in bringing her there? Not only is our family 100% committed to the ministry of Forgotten Voices, but our partners in Africa – brave men, women and [...]

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There is always way more than we can process via the blog. There will have to be movies and photos for us to show you – more of what we have experienced this past month. We are waiting in the airport for our plane to JFK to depart. This 6 hr layover before 28 hrs [...]

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From Ryan, Katie and the team traveling in souther Africa – One of the coolest lessons we are being reminded of here is that we are not working alone in southern Africa. Sometimes it is tempting to think that our gifts to local churches are the only way kids and families survive. A professor of [...]

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Caiden (our 18 month old son) has helped me to learn why the work we do in southern Africa is so important. Let me tell you how! Most weekday mornings Caiden sees me off to work. As soon as I begin to say “Bye Bye Caiden”, he leaps up from where he is at and [...]

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In many ways this trip has been deeply painful, watching children suffer so much. In a way I was just thinking that such limited access to the Internet has been a gift from God. Otherwise my computer screen may be stained by tears. I must tell you that I love the work you make possible. [...]

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